In a major victory for the left and progressive forces, all of the criminal convictions against Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been struck down by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil’s highest court.
Archive | 2021
![The new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) nuclear missile systems will cost tax payers $100 Billion. [Source: thebulletin.org]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/missiles-200x200.png "What’s behind the Biden Administration’s new $100 billion nuclear missile system?")
What’s behind the Biden Administration’s new $100 billion nuclear missile system?
Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
February revolution in Burma
The shell of the old Burmese society is cracking under the nationwide street protests against the military dictatorship, sparked by the small group of Mandalay protesters on February 6, 2021.
Neoliberalism was born in Chile; Neoliberalism will die in Chile
Daniel Jadue is the mayor of Recoleta, a commune that is part of the expanding city of Santiago, Chile. His office is on the sixth floor of a municipal building in whose lower reaches one can find a pharmacy, an optical shop, and a bookstore run by the municipality that are dedicated to providing fairly […]
Ecuadorian Indigenous Leader: “We must get out of the Correaism-Anticorreism polarization”
Leonidas Iza Salazar is one of the main leaders of the indigenous movement in Ecuador. His name gained national prominence in the October 2019 uprising against the attempted economic adjustment sought by the government of Lenin Moreno.
We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism
We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism as a matter of urgency. And that means ditching the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Cuba’s contributions in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
In the West, Cuba has set an example of efficiency and shown that another way is possible in the fight against the pandemic. The numbers speak for themselves; we only need to compare Cuba with other countries or even big cities with similar populations to get a very clear picture of the difference in results.
NATO video talks ‘diversity, respect, embrace’ but critics see through the wash job
NATO’s latest video is yet another example of how superficially progressive language is used to put a gloss on fundamentally regressive institutions.
Top Pentagon commander requests astronomical sum of money to prepare for war with China
A new U.S. war with China would threaten the world with unthinkable destruction. The danger of such a war cannot be ignored, it must be resisted.
Displaced persons return home in Latakia, Syria
Thousands of people displaced in the last eight years have returned to their towns liberated from terrorism in the coastal region of Latakia province, 337 kilometers north-west of Damascus.
Anti-Asian racism never stopped being an outgrowth of U.S. imperialism
Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism.
Stand in solidarity with Ken Loach
Ken Loach is one of Britain’s most revered and successful left filmmakers and he is currently being smeared by propagandists. If those who share Loach’s values fail to mobilize and stand in solidarity, then all of us should be fearful of potential similar persecution.
100 days of revolt, & still raring to go
As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of basic necessities
On Covid and the plague of Capital
Industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and the travel network have set up this perfect storm of conditions, not just for COVID, but also for future pandemics.
Report: U.S. preparing cyberattack against Russia over SolarWinds hack
Sources told The New York Times that the first major actions are expected sometime in the next three weeks.
Prioritise pandemic relief, recovery: No time for debt buybacks
Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down accumulated debt instead of strengthening pandemic relief and recovery. Thus, debt phobia risks deepening and extending COVID-19 recessions by prioritizing buybacks.
Recurring political crisis in Haiti connects with U.S. racism
Haiti faces serious political crisis. The country has experienced great political difficulties ever since gaining independent nationhood in 1804. Impaired governance stems in large measure from U.S. meddling over many years. We examine the current crisis and the basis for U.S. zeal to curtail Haiti’s future.
![“In the sixteenth and partly still in the seventeenth, the sudden expansion of trade and the creation of a new world market had an overwhelming influence on the defeat of the old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist mode.” — Karl Marx[1]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/boat-200x200.png "Newfoundland = New found fish")
Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
Notes on revolutionary hope
Humanity stands at a dangerous crossroads: a conflict between making profits and saving human life is clearly emerging, with the latter being sacrificed by the ruling class for the former.
Tutors replacing teachers: A failed privatization plot returns
The pandemic showed that for students to get quality instruction, especially poor children of color, America must invest in real teachers, smaller class sizes, and better working conditions, including improved school facilities.
